In our country, the indicator is Frederick County, Maryland. When that county starts dropping in the per-capita income rankings and the residents start selling off their palatial lake homes in other parts of the country, we’ll know that freedom is returning to the American people.

But speaking of luxury cars as perks in authoritarian regimes, is it really likely that a Soviet diplomat in 1955 Moscow would have owned a red, white, and chrome convertible like the one at 00:51 .

“What is China’s response to this plague of fraud in Chinese US listed stocks? They intend to make it very difficult for the Big 4 to continue to work in China ‘Big Four’ auditors brace for big changes in China. In the case of Longtop Financial, Deloites, the firms’ auditors have been unable to provide the SEC with any documentation about the collapse for fear of breaking China’s state secrecy laws.

These frauds are extremely sophisticated and have gone undetected by the large audit firms. They are not just the result of a series of independent events undertaken by similarly dishonest business people acting alone. Rather, a recent report suggests they are part of a systemic network of agents acting inside and outside of China whose main purpose is to perpetuate investment fraud on a scale never seen before in economic history.

One of the central players in uncovering Chinese investment fraud research is the firm Muddy Waters who recently published a white paper entitled Frauducation Part I: in this paper the author outlines how Chinese businessmen are taught and sponsored by experts, who sponsor and coach fraudsters in subjects like falsifying records, accounting, assets and the various methods needed to pull off grand frauds. When a character like John Paulson gets taken for nearly half a billion there is a lot of motivation on the criminal side to get things right.

The fraud school’s assistance went well beyond providing document and accounting templates. The fraud school provided a network of “friendly” auditors that would help the companies get through the initial due diligence processes. The fraud school also helped companies game the due diligence process by providing the companies with contact information of suppliers and customers to give to potential investors. The suppliers and customers were frauds – the school hired them merely to play a role and answer questions according to the script. (Source: Muddy Waters)

Fraud is central to the Chinese system, it has emerged via virulent mutation of the ancient tribute system. In the past, these tribute systems reflected an ancient form of private regulatory order. In the past there was often a limited basis for the rule of law to govern transactions. Throughout Chinese history, trade relied on systems of tribute to ensure secure business and political outcomes.

These old systems were still essential throughout Asia up until only a few decades ago because, transacting parties could not rely on the rule of law to ensure the security of terms governing a transaction. In China this has evolved into government sponsored systemic corruption with Western motivations of greed and criminality. It infects every level of the private and public sector.”

I remember reading about Fraud School in one of Peter Hessler’s books I think it was.

At the very moment we stop capitalizing the word “west” when referring to our own civilization it is revealed that other parts of the world — China, the Middle East, Mexico — do not share the fundamental values which we mistakingly assumed were universal and that populations were the same everywhere, irrespective of marriage patterns and its bio-cultural consequences.

We celebrate multiculturalism without knowing what other cultures are.

Poltiical correctness is destroying the West. End political correctness now. Let’s be politically incorrect where the facts and the evidence show it is wrong.